Logic principle

Principle

What makes sense must be true.

How it works

In our non-stop quest to understand and control the world around us, we seek
rational truth that makes sense to us. Logic uses evidence and scientific laws
with cause-and-effect arguments to incontrovertibly prove a point.

Social logic

Our need to appear rational with others brings much logic into our
discussions where we attribute causes to events and actions. The actual truth
and real logic are often relatively unimportant as compared with the social
benefits of appearing rational.

Conversations and debates are filled with people who are desperately seeking
to impose their logic over that of others and aggression often replaces
rationale, particularly if they feel that the other person's logic is superior.
A cold, logical argument may thus fail to convince others.

For logic to be most effective, there thus needs to be additional work done
to manage emotions.

False logic

Logic is not always logical. What persuades us is the appearance of logic
rather than something that follows the strict rules of argumentation.

False logic appears in such ways as:

Convoluted rationale that confuses and hence
leads the listener to assume it is true.